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Carl Pope was appointed Executive Director of the Sierra Club in 1992. A veteran leader in the environmental movement, Pope has been with the Sierra Club, named by the Aspen Institute "the most influential environmental organization in Washington, D.C.," for nearly thirty years. In that time he has served as Associate Conservation Director, Political Director and Conservation Director.
Under Pope's direction, the Sierra Club has helped protect nearly 10 million acres of wilderness, including the California Desert, Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and California's Giant Sequoias National Monument. Recently, the Sierra Club led the charge in pressuring the Bush Administration to reverse its position against new rules that would lower the amount of arsenic in America's drinking water. The Sierra Club has also continued to hold the line in protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling.
In addition to his work with the Sierra Club, Pope has had a distinguished record of environmental activism and leadership. He has served on the Boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Public Voice, National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause,
Public Interest Economics, Inc., and Zero Population Growth. Pope was also Executive Director of the California League of Conservation Voters and the Political Director of Zero Population Growth.
Pope is also the author of three books: SAHIB, AN AMERICAN MISADVENTURE IN INDIA (1971); HAZARDOUS WASTE IN AMERICA (1981); and the latest, STRATEGIC IGNORANCE: WHY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS RECKLESSLY DESTROYING A CENTURY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS (2004).
Pope graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1967. He then spent two years as a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Barhi Barhi, India, where he helped communities and families address the human and environmental impacts of overpopulation.
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